A nurse from the Block Island Medical Center called the 1st District Command Center requesting a medical evacuation for a 60-year-old man suffering from a heart attack.

Rescue crews, including a Coast Guard Corpsman, were launched aboard a MH-60 Jayhawk Helicopter from Air Station Cape Cod. The man was safely brought aboard the helicopter in Block Island at about 11:15 a.m. and flown to Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, R.I. for further care at 12 p.m.

“You guys help out a lot when we cant get to patients,” said Jason Trenn, the charge nurse at Rhode Island Hospital. “Everyone here really counts on the Coast Guard, and you came through again.”